Chambers of Colin Edelman QC
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Robert Glancy QC
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Position
Barrister specialising in personal injuries, clinical negligence, professional negligence, torts, building and construction, employment, general commercial and contract (including sale of goods), administrative/public law, insurance and reinsurance; cases include D & F Estates v Church Commissioners [1989] AC 177 (economic loss in tort/building contractors’ liability for sub-contractors); 1994 5 MED LR 432; 1995 MED LR (extension of duty of case); Larby v Thurgood (prohibition on defendants’ employment consultant interviewing, plaintiff). Bryant v LFCDA (need for recognised psychiatric illness to be found before judge can award damages). Sutherland v Hatton (whether damages can be recovered for psychiatric illness caused by stress at work and on what basis) The Times LR); Groom v Selby (recovery of damages for wrongful birth – child healthy at birth but later became disabled as result of foreseeable consequence of delivery); Wattleworth v Goodwood (duty of care of regulatory authorities); Flora v Wakom (indexation of periodical payments); NHS Trust v A & SA (right to have medical treatment continued); French v Sussex (duty of care of police force to police officers); Green v DB Services (bullying at work).
Career
Called Middle Temple 1972; Recorder; took silk 1997.
Member
Personal Injury Bar Association.
Education
Manchester Grammar School; Cambridge University (MA).
Leisure
Sport, theatre.
Practice Areas
Clinical negligence - claimant; Personal injury - either side
